qlcnic_83xx...eset_ack_reg(9)

💅 NAME 💅

qlcnic_83xx_idc_check_reset_ack_reg — and honestly bestie, that's the whole name section, the og page literally just drops the function name and dips 😭 no one-liner, no "this does X", nothing. We move.

Also hi, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — yes we're in the kernel-functions chapter, put your seatbelt on. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int qlcnic_83xx_idc_check_reset_ack_reg (struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter
);

It returns an int, it takes exactly one thing, and that thing is a pointer to a struct qlcnic_adapter. That's it, that's the whole vibe check. 🦋

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• adapter — the adapter structure. Yep. That's the description the original gives us. It's a struct qlcnic_adapter *, it's your network adapter's whole deal, and the function needs it. Short and sweet, no cap. 💖

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Okay so here's the actual tea: this function checks the ACK wait limit and then clears the functions which failed to ACK. So like — somebody asked all the functions to ack the reset request, some of them ghosted 👻, and this is the function that notices the timer ran out and sweeps up the non-responders. Very "seen at 3:47 AM, no reply" energy, and honestly, they got what they got. 💀

Return 0 if all functions have acknowledged the reset request. ✨ That's the happy path, the slay path, the everyone-showed-up-to-the-group-chat path. Iconic.

Heads up bestie: the only documented return value here is that 0 for "everyone acked." The page does not spell out what you get back when things went sideways — so I'm not gonna invent it. No cap, we don't do made-up facts in this house. 🙈

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

First up, the kernel source file it lives in, fr fr:

• ./drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c

And now the whole bestie roster, the entire qlcnic_83xx_idc friend group 🧚✨:

• qlcnic_83xx_idc_tx_soft_reset(9)
• qlcnic_83xx_idc_detach_driver(9)
• qlcnic_83xx_idc_attach_driver(9)
• qlcnic_83xx_idc_find_reset_owner_id(9)
• qlcnic_83xx_idc_ready_state_entry(9)
• qlcnic_83xx_idc_vnic_pf_entry(9)
• qlcnic_83xx_idc_cold_state_handler(9)
• qlcnic_83xx_idc_init_state(9)
• qlcnic_83xx_idc_ready_state(9)
• qlcnic_83xx_idc_need_reset_state(9)
• qlcnic_83xx_idc_poll_dev_state(9)
• qlcnic_83xx_exec_template_cmd(9)

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Okay that's the page!! Mwah 💋 It's from the Kernel API Manual and the source path got truncated in the footer to ./drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/... — the date on it is October 2026, and the footer just echoes the name back at you as qlcnic_83xx...eset_ack_reg(9). Go read the source file, drink some water, and remember: ack your resets, bestie, or the ACK wait limit will find you. 🌸🫶💜